1.x AI Faction Progression Thread

[gamegeek2]

It's 225 BCE. That's me, the guy with the arrow pointing to him. Yo. I romped around Hellas and Thraikia for a while before taking the fight to the Romani. And playing on VH/M

The Big-Ass Ever-Growing Ptolemaic Empire- "We have crushed the Seleukids. Pahlava can deal with the rest while we profit!!!1!

Anatolian Empire - "Those Epeirotes took all our provinces - but Lesbos! The Lesbians (yes, the word comes from here, srsly) showed us what we were doing wrong. Then we shanked our allies, the Seleukids, and then did the same to Pontos. We've almost wiped the floor with the Hai, but they somehow hold on with a 2 fullstacks guarding their town.

The Brown Recluse - "We took South Arabia. Isn't that enough?"

Punix - "Every time Epeiros marches into Italia, we feel compelled by our constant allies, the Romans, to capture the settlements they have. Before, only one fullstack was necessary. Now, 3 are. Too bad they've already blown one up. Before now, we haven't done much except take Sicily, Southern Italia, and some Numidians."

The Gray, Near Death - "Waaah, Mommy!"

Pahlava - "Sup. Welcome to the Waste Land."

Getai - "Me AnD tHe EpEiRoTeS aRe BfF!"

The Baks - No comment.

Saka - "Praise the Lawds of the Steppes! Hallelujah! Amen."

Sauros - "All we ever do is fight Getai. Seems to stop either of us from expanding."

Sweboz - "Slow and steady wins the race. We like the Alps."

Casse - "Uh, who are you guys?"

Romani - "Oh, I'm gonna get those Epeirotes!"

KH - "We still have the Kolossos!"

Luso - "Damn Romans. Why are they bothering with us over Epeiros? What n00bs."

[Onehandstan]

Nice lusotannan and carthaginian expansion. What year is that?

about 208 BC

[Terror]

My Casse campaign on H/M

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Pahlava is very impressive, they usually get grinded to dust with a minigun, but now they are a strong force. Also Pontos control the northern coast of Anatolia, they usually do nothing in my games.

I am planning to make this game an AAR, but i have to conquer the remaining Irish tribes first

E: Problems with the pictures, wait a second till i fix this

Another edit: Nop, can't get the pictures to work, i tried to change the host and everything. Can anybody else see these pictures?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

No I can't see them..
Wasn't there some number of post that you had to post before you had the ability to .. post .. pictures?

[Terror]

I think the rule applies only to your first post. And even then, you can't post the message at all if it has pictures or links. But i'll try to fix it again.

[^RaGe^]

206BC



(I've changed the colors of Hayasdan and Pontos)

Edit: Rome rom rom

[General Appo]

Nice progress. I´m going to assume that you are playing as Romani, but please inform us of your faction in every post. Avoids confusion.

[Ignopotens]

Just out of curiosity, what's the best AI Getai expansion you guys have seen? I love to play as them but I never seen them do a whole lot as AI.

[Mediolanicus]

I've seen them taking everything from Tanaïs and the Crimea to the Bastarnae province and all the way down to Byzantium and Bythinia.
They went as far north as they could against those spawning armies and took all the rest in between apart from the Dalmatian coastline, Epeiros and Makedonia.

Should have taken a screenshot when that happened.

The Getai were doing something similar in my campaign that was recently stopped by a CTD.




Now I wonder with which faction to start a new campaign...

[General Appo]

Please mate, always say what faction you are playing as. I´m going to assume it´s Arverni this time.

[johnhughthom]

Please mate, always say what faction you are playing as. I´m going to assume it´s Arverni this time.

If he's not that would officially be the coolest AI expansion ever.

[Mediolanicus]

Please mate, always say what faction you are playing as. I´m going to assume it´s Arverni this time.

Yeah yeah, I was playing the Arverni, but since the post was about the Getai and since that campaign came to a halt, it was of little importance.

Rather tell me which faction to play now...

[SwissBarbar]

My current Roman Campaign (H/M):




As you can see the Ptolemaioi are as almost always acting as the yellow plague, consuming AS and even parts of the Carthagian Empire.

Pontos is surprisingly strong, keeping the Sauromatae under control as a Protectorate.

Saka an Baktria are not expanding anymore for quite a while, the same with the sabean, who suffer under the threat of mordor.. eh sorry, the ptolemaioi.

Macedonia fights against epeiros and is winnig, the getai can still hold their lands...so far

the Aedui and Averni are same as the Lusotannan disappeard in the roman empire. The Sweboz share their fate soon.

Me, playing as the Romani, am invading the Carthagian empire from 2 Sides. From Sicily with a Roman Army which conquerd Kart-Hadast and the City just a stone's throw in the North, whose Name i forgot, and from Iberia with an Army of Iberian Soldiers led by a Roman General.

Besides that i'm invading Britain. My 2 Armies of altogether 50'000 Men (in my Roleplay 1 Soldier = 10 Soldiers), led by 2 great Strateges of the Family, have already defeated in 3 great battles and some smaller combats the dreadful Armies of the Casse and slaughtered 120'000 fierce barbarian warriors (they had surprisingly many soldiers and even more suprisingly heavy ones!). The Roman forces too lost about 15'000 - 20'000men, mostly replaced by mercenaries from Britain and Northern Gaul.

[Dodge_272]

260 BCE
RTW 1.5
M/M

[Chris_]

My current Roman Campaign (H/M):

I hope that Pontos can make inroads into the Ptolies. Imagine all that purple-ish!

[SwissBarbar]

yeah, i hope so. they are my oldest and most faithful allies, wich is unquestionably a result of the fact, that their empire has no borderline with mine ;-)

Nonetheless i like pontos and i hope, that the war the ptolemaioi brought upon me will bother the yellow ones this much, that my pontic friends can win influence in the former territory of the Arche Seleukeia at the other side of the Ptolemaic Empire. Acutally i think, that my next campaign will be a pontic one

[Ravenfeeder]

Kart-Hadast, H/M, BI.exe moddeed so Silver is less valuable and Gold more valuable, so that Large and Small mines give different values.

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Alpine provinces a gift to the Aedui from me as part of one of the peace treaties with the Romans (which, like all the others they broke almost instantly, resulting in their destruction).

Ptolemaioi not taking Mesopotamia is interesting. I put it down to the revolt of Palmyra and the full garrison that has constantly remained there. Pontos slow but steady growth also of interest.

[General Appo]

Yeah, the Sab´yn can really stop the Ptolies dead in their tracks, often much more so than the Sele´s. Perhaps the Pahlava can take advantage of this and get to Babylonia first. Would be really nice to see.

[The_Brittunculi]

Casse, 226 BC H/VH. One of the interesting things that I've managed to do in this campaign is bribe a couple small Koinon Hellenon armies in far-off Greece and then use them to take and sack Sparta and the city south of Pella once they were under-defended. I destroyed all the buildings I could in these two cities then gave them to Rome. The KH seem to be doing really well in Asia now that they have less to worry about in Greece.
The Arverni are in Germania because I invaded it from Scandinavia, then I started losing and gave them the land I had south of Denmark to stop the Sweboz from counter-invading Scandinavia.
I like the Carthaginians so I bribed a small Roman army and took Massilia (sp?) from the Romans when it was underdefended and then gave it to Carthage. I think this also stopped the Romans from taking over Gaul too fast.
Besides this, Epeiros is doing really well and the Hayasdan have split the Sarmatians in half as is what usually happens in my campaigns. I'll post more if anything interesting happens.

Also this is my first post in a long time! I've been reading this forum for about a month now but I forgot I had an account here. :)

[SwissBarbar]

very interesting what epeiros and KH are doing there... especially KH, who mosty get eaten by Macedonia or Epeiros in my campaigns

[General Appo]

That is undoubtly the most exciting KH expansion I have ever seen.

[Dodge_272]

230 BC
M/M

[SwissBarbar]

guess you are rome?

very nice map. sakas very strong, Baktria quite weak.

[Dodge_272]

Yes I am Rome, at war with Pontus, Greece and Spain currently having beaten Macedonia, Carthage, Epirus and Gaul in previous wars.

I got really bored and went a bit mad on MS paint though.

This is the proper screenshot

[General Appo]

Love the Sakas. Havn´t seen them so far south in quite a while.

[penguinking]

Casse, VH/M

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Some interesting expansion going on in this campaign.
Pontos did very well. This is the first time I've ever seen them capture Seleukia. Sadly Pontos is now under decline and falling to the AS. The AS lost the western half of its empire and is slowly reconquering it. Baktria was a protectorate of Saka for a long time until the AS crushed their last city. Pahlava was overwhelmed by the AS. The Ptolemies are struggling to deal with Saba. Epeiros rushed north as far as Scythia but wasted all their armies fighting Eleutheroi and were gutted by Macedon from the south. Macedon has both Pontos and Getai as protectorates. Carthage did very little for decades until it declared war on my allies, the Lusotannan. Of course, the Casse warriors crushed Carthage's armies and saved the Lusotannan, who repaid the Casse's kindness by betraying them. They were annihilated.

[mcantu]

206 BC; Mak campaign; ED 1.1x

[General Appo]

WTF?!!?!!?!!?!??!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!??!!??!!?!?!?

Did you put the Saka in Gedrosia? If not, this is the greatest moment in AI progression ever!!
OMGOMOGMGOGOMGOGMOGOGOGOGOGMOGOGGOGGOMGOGOGOGMOGMOGMOGMOGMOGOG!

[SwissBarbar]

thats the saba, not the saka

[johnhughthom]

and it probably just rebelled to them.